The Department of Housing and Urban Development declined to comment on the progress on revised policy drafts that may help reduce lender liability and ease back-end enforcement actions. The FHA is considering procedural changes aimed at easing lender liability to spur more FHA lending to qualified, underserved borrowers. Specifically, FHA is reportedly working to raise the bar on loan certification violations, making it harder to sue lenders for unintentional or technical mistakes. Such a change could spur...

M&T Bank is facing lending discrimination allegations in U.S. District Court in Manhattan after a fair housing group claimed to have accumulated evidence of disparate treatment between qualified minority borrowers and less-qualified white mortgage applicants. The Fair Housing Justice Center, a New-York based nonprofit, accused M&T Bank of violating the Fair Housing Act by offering higher loan amounts to white borrowers and allowing more flexible criteria than those made available for minority borrowers. As of press time, M&T did not respond...

The jumbo market ended 2014 with $235 billion in originations, a 14 percent decline from the prior year.

What did the FHA earn last year? The new HUD secretary didn't know.

NewDay's chairman emeritus is former Ginnie Mae president Joe Murin.

The ABS Vegas show attracted more than 6,000 attendees, but few investors appear ready to buy new jumbo MBS.

Stan Middleman, chairman of CHMI, told IMFnews that having agency approvals will allow the REIT to leverage servicing rights...

According to the MBA, a Big Four accounting firm issued controversial guidance which would have been burdensome for small MBS issuers.

Bayview is purchasing from a network of correspondent sellers roughly $10 million per month in loans that don’t meet the QM test defined by the CFPB.

Citadel Servicing Corp., which has made a name for itself as a new-style subprime lender, has rolled out an Alt A mortgage called “Maggi.”